A quick hit of the Great Span for you: the bearded fellow standing in front of that F-100 fighter jet in 1955 is William Lundy, | Continue reading
The University of Tasmania recently awarded an honorary doctorate degree to Hannah Gadsby, who then gave an address to the gradu | Continue reading
Eight hours of ambient chillout music over images pulled from NASA's photographic archive of nebulas, galaxies, planets, and oth | Continue reading
Cecilia Paredes takes photos of herself blending into elaborate backgrounds. You can see more of her work at Colossal, Len | Continue reading
Ok you're going to have to trust me and just watch this -- telling you anything else would spoil it. I've seen it a couple of ti | Continue reading
Pixar is doing an origin story prequel of Toy Story called Lightyear. The teaser trailer is above. Chris Evans is taking over fr | Continue reading
The father-son duo of Martin and Erik Demaine make typefaces that are algorithmic, mathematical, or puzzle-like in nature. For ins | Continue reading
At an event for the release of his recent memoir, The Storyteller, Dave Grohl got behind his drum kit and played along with the | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, the New York Times for Kids section (aka the best section of the newspaper) showed us How to Build Roller Ska | Continue reading
Since 2003, photographer Olaf Otto Becker has been documenting the decline of the glaciers and ice sheet in Greenland.Gr | Continue reading
To mark the 20th anniversary of the iPod, Cabel Sasser shared some photos of one of the coolest artifacts in the Panic Archives: | Continue reading
Using photos and films made in the 1910s and 1920s, Myles Zhang made this animated reconstruction of Ford's Model T assembly lin | Continue reading
Contestants from 55 countries entered over 9000 photos in the Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition for 2021 and n | Continue reading
From Patrick Willems, a history and celebration/defense of movie opening title sequences. They have fallen out of favor over the | Continue reading
Designer Joe Doucet's Wind Turbine Wall is both a kinetic sculpture and a way to harness wind power to create electricity.Wind | Continue reading
Roland Miller has been documenting space exploration for more than 30 years and his latest book, which he's funding via Kickst | Continue reading
Artist & engineer JBV has built a robot artist called Flingbot that works by throwing paint at a canvas according to a numbe | Continue reading
The Simpsons Library Instagram account has been documenting all of the books, magazines, and other printed matter that has | Continue reading
In these tantalizingly short videos, legendary producer Butch Vig details how the songs on Nirvana's 1991 breakthrough album N | Continue reading
Korean artist Lee Sangsoo makes these minimalist yet expressive sculptures of animals, people, and objects. And they're perhaps la | Continue reading
The latest installment in the excellent Almost Famous series from the NY Times and Ben Proudfoot is about Devon Michael, who as | Continue reading
For his YouTube channel Listening In, Barnaby Martin analyzed the theme that Radiohead wrote for the 2015 Bond film Spectre, a s | Continue reading
Ahhhh, The Verge has published an excerpt of Tamara Shopsin's LaserWriter II, "a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90 | Continue reading
Using samples of chopped-down wood left behind by Viking explorers at their settlement in Newfoundland and known chemical markers | Continue reading
Oh, I'm excited for this one. I'm not saying The Great was the best show I've seen over the past couple of years, but it's defin | Continue reading
When the TV watching experience moved from checking "your local listings" or TV Guide and surfing channels with your rem | Continue reading
For the last nine months, NASA's Perseverance rover has been rolling around on Mars taking photos and doing science. It's also b | Continue reading
For the last ten years, artist Amy Balkin has been collecting artifacts related to the climate crisis. The collection is cal | Continue reading
Alisa Lariushkina uses air-dry clay to make swirling sculptures that look like landscape paintings. Lariushkina's patterns a | Continue reading
From Storythings, a weekly newsletter called Formats Unpacked that takes a close look at different ways to tell stories and packag | Continue reading
Last week, William Shatner finally got a chance to boldly go where he hadn't actually been before: into space. And upon returnin | Continue reading
Always great to check back in on the work of Me Kyeoung Lee, who has been drawing delicate & detailed portraits of conve | Continue reading
Others (like Timothy Snyder) have been saying this for months and years, but in a succinct 8-minute monologue, Bill Maher1 lays | Continue reading
Folks who live on 15th Street in the Richmond district of San Francisco report that an abnormal number of Google's self-driving ca | Continue reading
Check out these expressive impressionist oil paintings of scenes from Star Wars by Naci Caba. (He also does paintings of L | Continue reading
If you, like me, haven't had the opportunity to visit the Giza Pyramid Complex outside of Cairo, Egypt, this 2-hour HD walking t | Continue reading
This is 8 hours of an astronaut floating in a colorful galactic sea accompanied by ambient music, i.e. the sort of thing you wou | Continue reading
Originally written as a Facebook post in the wake of the 2016 election, Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the | Continue reading
The Natural History Museum in London has announced the winners of the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Phot | Continue reading
In a two-part video series called Trans Dudes From History, Jackson Bird tells us about some historical people who were probably | Continue reading
You've probably seen it: a dual-tubed generator console that's appeared in movies and TV shows like Star Trek (all of them, pret | Continue reading
The fossil record has provided us with so much information about plants, animals, and organisms that lived hundreds, thousands, | Continue reading
If you're even just a little bit interested in The Beatles, popular music, or making creative work, The Beatles: Get Back looks | Continue reading
In trying to explain what you're about to see here, I cannot improve upon the Dr. Adrian Smith's narration at the beginning of t | Continue reading
The three-point shot has become the focus of the offensive strategy of every successful NBA team. But is it also making the game | Continue reading
From Literary Hub, The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History. Some good ones shared in the comments as well. (thx, serge) | Continue reading
In 1927, photographer and ethnologist Edward S. Curtis travelled to the US territory of Alaska to photograph indigenous peop | Continue reading
In the United States and in many other countries around the world, we're slowly shifting away from the Covid-19 pandemic to SARS-C | Continue reading